KS1 Spelling Progress Test - Test One - Age 6-7

A series of spelling progress tests for children aged 6-7 years.  These tests can be used to assess a child’s individual attainment in spelling.

Each test consists of 20 target words, presented within 20 distinct sentences, read by an adult to the children from a script.  Although not strictly timed, it should take about 15 mins.

The words have been carefully chosen to suit the requirements of the English National Curriculum.  These tests are based on the spelling tests given to 7 year olds in the Year 2 SATs.

Spellings may include:

• endings like ff, ll, ss, zz, ck, -tch,

• consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th)

• words ending in y

• vowel digraphs and trigraphs

• soft c (ce, ci, cy) and soft g (ge, gi, gy)

• adding -s and -es at the end of words to form plurals

• adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est to words

• words ending in -ge, -dge, -tion, -ture, -le, -el, -al

• days of the week

• compound words

• tricky sounds like -igh, -ough, -augh, -ch, -ph, -que, -gue, -ine

• long u

• i before e except after c

• silent letters

• suffixes

• prefixes

• homophones

• common exception words